One Marine has been killed and 9 others were injured when a helicopter made a hard landing at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. The CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter came down hard during a training exercise around 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Capt. Ryan Elizabeth Alvis said in a statement. Alvis said the name of the dead… Read More One Marine killed, nine injured in helicopter hard landing
The Department of State Services (DSS) has sacked its former spokesperson, Ms Marilyn Ogar and 44 other top directors in the security agency. SSS spokeswoman Marilyn Ogar Marilyn Ogar who was the former deputy director of agency was removed two months ago and equally lost her promotion following President Muhammadu Buhari’s nullification of the exercise… Read More DSS spokesperson, Marilyn Ogar sacked, alongside 44 directors
The Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha has unveiled new Government House number plates. Showing samples of the number plates to different security agencies in the state, Governor Okorocha said it will go a long way to bring sanity in the use of government number plates and check the indiscriminate and illegal use of the facility.… Read More Imo Govt. House introduces new plate number
A wooden boat crammed with migrant workers who were headed back to Indonesia capsized Thursday off Malaysia’s western coast, leaving at least 14 people dead, a maritime official said. The boat was believed to be carrying 70 people and not 100 as reported earlier by fishermen, said First Adm. Mohamad Aliyas Hamdan, the district chief… Read More 14 dead as wooden boat carrying migrants capsize
Dean Jones, the go-to Disney actor whose films included “The Love Bug,” “The Million Dollar Duck,” “That Darn Cat!” and “The Shaggy D.A.,” died Tuesday, according to his publicist. Jones was aged 84. The cause of death was Parkinson’s disease, according to publicist Richard Hoffman. Jones made his film debut in 1956’s “Somebody Up There… Read More Former Disney actor, Dean Jones dies at 84
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Wednesday, stated that it has commenced the unbundling of the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, PPMC, into three different companies — a storage, pipelines and products marketing companies. Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, who stated this during a tour of the Okrika Jetty and the… Read More NNPC embarks on the division of PPMC into three different companies
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